Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Coastal Artillery War Badge, by Schwerin Hold a Reich Labour Service (RAD)

a Reich Labour Service (RAD) badge

(NSDAP Stempel)

measuring between 61x44mm and 76x106

SOLINGEN” circumscribing the firm’s logo

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Coastal Artillery War Badge, by Schwerin Hold a Reich Labour Service (RAD)(Kriegsabzeichen fr die Marineartillerie). Constructed of gilded and silvered zink, the obverse consisting of an oval oak leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, topped by a Heer style German national eagle clutching a mobile swastika, surrounding a coastal artillery gun with its barrel raised and extending beyond the edge of the wreath, the reverse with a barrel hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a flat wire catch, maker marked